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The skies themselves weep
Pouring bone chilling rain in sheets
Slowly the loss begins to creep
Into my heart and removing all heat

I stare blankly ahead at them
Their lifeless eyes unseeing but open wide
The tears fall freely not caring if others codemn
Me for mourning those who died

Part of my second family is gone
The reality of it set in now
I had been crying since the crack of dawn
I kept asking myself how

How and why did this have to happen?
Murdered so cruelly by one they trusted
The anger began to set in then
I started to feel so disgusted

How could anyone be filled with so much greed?
I looked to my friends suffering so much
Their mom and their grandfather they did so need
Gone now from one knife's touch

I wiped my tear streaked face
And let the numbness take over me
I let my anger dissolve without a trace
And made it so hope was all I could see

I made my way to my friends so lost
We hugged as one and began to bawl
I vowed to help them no matter the cost
And no matter the time they could always call

We parted and I had to leave
They gave me sad but hopeful smiles
I knew their pain may never relieve
But at least it will fade after a while

To this day I've kept my vow
My friends will never fully recover
But they can smile and laugh now
Despite the pain they try to cover

It's still so hard to look in the past
But I know they're always seeing
Their memory will forever last
Despite the actions of one human being



I wrote this three years ago, after my friends' mother and grandfather were killed by their stepfather. I used to practically live at their house, and I loved all of them like family. My way of dealing with things is in poetry and I tried to pour all the emotions I felt into this, but it wasn't possible. Even now looking back it's hard to think about.

-x-R.I.P.- Manuel and Irene-x-

It's been three years since it happened and it still sometimes doesn't seem real. My friends mom was divorcing their stepdad and selling the house. Their grandfather lived there too since their grandmother died of cancer and didn't want to be alone. Their stepdad picked a fight with their grandfather when they were having an open house to try to sell the house. They moved the arguement inside since people were looking at the outside of the house...Their stepdad picked up a knife when their grandfather turned his back to him and he stabbed him repeatedly. Then he set the knife down and went outside and said to their mother, "Look at what I did to your father." And so she went running inside thinking they had started hitting each other to find her father facedown in a pool of blood. Their stepdad then picked the knife back up and stabbed her twice in the back while she was bent over her dying father. She was still alive and managed to get past him and outside and she collapsed in the front lawn in front of the realtor and all the people there to see the house. The cops were called and when they arrived the stepdad lunged at a police officer with the knife and was shot. My friends mom died before an ambulance could arrive and their stepdad died on the way to the hospital. Had we all been in their room upstairs we'd be dead too, but we were out front hanging with the neighborhood crew...

I'm really glad he is too, or I'd be in jail for killing him x.x
I'm glad we decided to hang out outside that day, everything could have been so much worse.

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